• A plague-like disease of rodents, transmissible to man. It is caused by FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS and is characterized by fever, chills, headache, backache, and weakness.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
• A serious Gram-negative bacterial infection caused by Francisella tularensis. It is transmitted to humans through bites from infected insects, inhaling airborne bacteria, handling infected animals, or consuming contaminated food or water. Signs and symptoms include skin ulcers, mouth sores, lymphadenopathy, sore throat, fever and pneumonia.
  NCI Thesaurus
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• An infection that is caused by Francisella tularensis, which is transmitted to humans from infected insects, inhaling airborne bacteria, handling infected animals, or consuming contaminated food or water; infection can manifest as fever, sore throat, skin ulcers, mouth sores, lymphadenopathy, or pneumonia.
  NICHD Pediatric Terminology
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• Disease caused by Francisella tularensis and transmitted to man from rodents through the bite of a deer fly, Chrysops discalis, and other bloodsucking insects; symptoms consist of a prolonged fever and often swelling of the lymph nodes; rabbits are important reservoir hosts.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• Tularemia is a febrile disease caused by the gram-negative bacterium Francisella tularensis; it may resemble typhoid fever. Symptoms are a primary local ulcerative lesion, regional lymphadenopathy, profound systemic symptoms, and, occasionally, atypical pneumonia. Diagnosis is primarily epidemiologic and clinical and supported by...
  Merck Manuals
  Merck & Co., Inc., 2020
• Tularemia is an acute, febrile, granulomatous, infectious zoonosis caused by Francisella tularensis, an aerobic, gram-negative, pleomorphic bacillus . F tularensis is one of the most infectious bacterial species known, as it can cause illness in humans with exposure to as few as 10-50 organisms.
  Medscape
  WebMD, 2019
• Tularemia is a rare infectious disease that typically attacks the skin, eyes, lymph nodes and lungs. Tularemia - also called rabbit fever or deer fly fever - is caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis.
  Mayo Clinic
  Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
• Tularemia is an infection caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. It is more common in rodents and rabbits but has been found in other animals including domestic cats, sheep, birds, and hamsters. Humans can become infected in several different ways: by handling infected animals, through tick or deer fly bites, by drinking...
  NIH Genetic and Rare Diseases
  National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
• An infectious disease caused by the gram-negative bacteria Francisella tularensis . Spread by ticks, biting flies, or direct contact with infected animals or animal skin. It may also be spread by inhalation of aerosols when doing yard work (e.g., mowing the lawn) where infected animals live.
  Epocrates
  Athenahealth, Inc., 2019
• Tularemia, acute infectious disease resembling plague, but much less severe. It was described in 1911 among ground squirrels in Tulare county, California (from which the name is derived), and was first reported in humans in the United States in 1914. The causative agent is the gram-negative...
  Encyclopedia Britannica
  Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020